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Nonthermal solid-to-solid phase transitions in tungsten

Giret, Y; Daraszewicz, SL; Duffy, DM; Shluger, AL; Tanimura, K; (2014) Nonthermal solid-to-solid phase transitions in tungsten. Physical Review B , 90 (9) , Article 094103. 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.094103. Green open access

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Abstract

The ab initio calculations of phonon dispersions and nonthermal forces along structural deformation paths were used to study nonthermal solid-to-solid phase transitions in photoexcited tungsten. We assumed that electronic excitation can be described by an electronic temperature and demonstrated that nonthermal, i.e., caused purely by electronic excitation, bcc-to-fcc and bcc-to-hcp phase transitions can occur for electronic temperatures between 1.7 and 4.3 eV. These transitions result from soft modes along the Σ line of the Brillouin zone. Structural path calculations at different electronic temperatures indicate that both transitions are likely to take place in nonequilibrium conditions. We further predict that transient fcc and hcp phases of tungsten could be observed for several ps.

Type: Article
Title: Nonthermal solid-to-solid phase transitions in tungsten
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.094103
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.094103
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2014 American Physical Society.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1449313
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